showing that Marie-Anne had a rich theological library with books which included versions of The Bible, St. Augustine's Confessions, Jacques Saurin's Discours sur la Bible, Pierre Nicole's Essais de Morale, Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, Louis Bourdaloue's Sermons, Thomas à Kempis's De Imitatione Christi, etc. Artistic training and contributions Paulze began receiving artistic instruction from the painter Jacques-Louis David in later 1785 or early 1786. Not long after, probably sometime in 1787, David painted a full-length double portrait of Paulze and her husband, foregrounding the former. Paulze's artistic training enabled her not only to document and illustrate her husband's experiments and publications (she even depicted herself as a participant in two drawings of her husband's experiments) but also, for example, to paint a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, one of the many scientific thinkers that she hosted in her salons. Later Paulze's ties with David were severed due to the radical politics of the latter in the context of the French Revolution. References Further reading Kawashima, Keiko "Paulze-Lavoisier, Marie-Anne-Pierrette", New Dictionnary of Scientific Biography, Noretta Koertge ed., Detroit et.al., Thomson & Gale, 8 vols, vol. 6, 2007: 44-45 Bell, Madison Smartt. Lavoisier in the Year One. New York: Atlas Books, 2005. Borgias, Adriane P. "Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier." Women in Chemistry and Physics, A Biobibliographic Sourcebook. Eds. Louise S. Grinstein, Rose K Rose, and Miriam H. Rafailovich. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993: 314-319. Crawford, Franklin. "CU’s great treasure of science: Lavoisier collection is Mme. Lavoisier’s Achievement." Cornell Chronicle [New York]. 30 Jan. 2007. 12 Apr. 2007. Eagle, Cassandra T. and Sloan, Jennifer. "Marie Anne Paulze Lavoisier: The Mother of Modern Chemistry." The Chemical Educator 3.5 (1998): 1-18. 12 Apr. 2007 Hoffmann, R., "Mme Lavoisier", American Scientist 90 (Jan-Feb, 2002) pp. 22–24. Bell, Madison Smartt. Lavoisier in the Year One. New York: Atlas Books, 2005. Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey and Marelene. "Marie Anna Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier." Women in Chemistry. Massachusetts: American Chemical Society and Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1998: 17-22. External links The transcript page includes Marie Lavoisier's engraving of a gazometer, from Traité Élémentaire de Chimie''. Fifteen engravings by Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, from Traité élémentaire de chimie. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223209/http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/14858405/944536095/name/%EE%80%80lavoisier%EE%80%81.pdf 1758 births 1836 deaths People from Montbrison, Loire 18th-century French chemists French women chemists French Roman Catholics English–French translators Latin–French translators Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 18th-century French women scientists 19th-century French women scientists 19th-century translators 19th-century French chemists